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@brandonb927
brandonb927 / osx-for-hackers.sh
Last active May 14, 2024 18:00
OSX for Hackers: Yosemite/El Capitan Edition. This script tries not to be *too* opinionated and any major changes to your system require a prompt. You've been warned.
#!/bin/sh
###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###
# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx
@chetan
chetan / yardoc_cheatsheet.md
Last active May 10, 2024 02:53
YARD cheatsheet
@marktheunissen
marktheunissen / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active April 26, 2024 23:26 — forked from phred/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options
This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.
@joemiller
joemiller / raid_ephemeral.sh
Last active October 23, 2023 21:53
detect all ephemeral disks on EC2 then stripe together in a raid-0 vol mounted at /mnt
#!/bin/bash
#
# this script will attempt to detect any ephemeral drives on an EC2 node and create a RAID-0 stripe
# mounted at /mnt. It should be run early on the first boot of the system.
#
# Beware, This script is NOT fully idempotent.
#
METADATA_URL_BASE="http://169.254.169.254/2012-01-12"
@paf31
paf31 / 24days.md
Last active August 8, 2023 05:53
24 Days of PureScript

This blog post series has moved here.

You might also be interested in the 2016 version.

@pchiusano
pchiusano / type-inhabitants.markdown
Last active January 7, 2023 17:23
Reasoning about type inhabitants in Haskell

This is material to go along with a 2014 Boston Haskell talk.

We are going to look at a series of type signatures in Haskell and explore how parametricity (or lack thereof) lets us constrain what a function is allowed to do.

Let's start with a decidedly non-generic function signature. What are the possible implementations of this function which typecheck?

wrangle :: Int -> Int
@mrkgnao
mrkgnao / IosevkaConfigGen.hs
Last active November 8, 2022 18:28
Render Iosevka ligatures to Private Use Area glyphs, for Emacs
{-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards, Arrows #-}
import Numeric
import Data.Char
import Control.Monad
import Data.Monoid ((<>))
import Data.List (nub, sort, reverse)
data RepeatBounds = RB
@otoolep
otoolep / influxdb-grafana-howto.sh
Last active March 14, 2021 06:32
Shell script to download, and configure, InfluxDB, nginx, and Grafana
#!/bin/bash
# Check out the blog post at:
#
# http://www.philipotoole.com/influxdb-and-grafana-howto
#
# for full details on how to use this script.
AWS_EC2_HOSTNAME_URL=http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-hostname
INFLUXDB_DATABASE=test1
@bitemyapp
bitemyapp / gist:ac316a6eb666695ff7d2
Last active November 4, 2020 04:11
How I talk about Haskell when I want people to care about learning Haskell

Fire up ghci. Make the text real big. Always show the types for everything as you go!

Takes ~1 hour generally.

Note: if you object to "uncertainty" (evocative of data/value flow possibilities), consider wording like "simultaneously possible values". It's a reference to how the compiler won't know whether Maybe a is a Just a or a Nothing statically. Don't blather at me about dependent types; I know.

Alternate verbiage for uncertainty: product - simultaneous altogetherness, sum - simultaneous singlehood. Also consider what the category theoretic diagrams look like. Can be instructive.

Suggestions taken under advisement.

@pbailis
pbailis / gist:5660980
Last active April 27, 2020 11:46
Assorted distributed database readings

Context: I was asked for a list of interesting reading relating to "distributed databases, behavior under partitions and failures, failure detection." Here's what I came up with in about an hour.

For textbooks, "Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming" is a superb introduction to distributed computing from a formal perspective; it's really not about "programming" or "engineering" but about distributed system fundamentals like consensus, distributed registers, and broadcast. Used in Berkeley's Distributed Computing course (and HT to @lalithsuresh) Book Site

Notes from courses like Lorenzo Alvisi's Distributed Computing class can be great.

There are a bunch of classics on causality, [Paxos](ht